Again, after the obligatory unplugged week, I’m back in full interactive force. SXSW 2010 was amazing – bigger and badder than last year. Exhausting, though.
I’m reminded of the tactile world returning home today. Spring is slowly emerging, daffodils blooming, rosemary spreading, and winter berries dwindling away.
The amount of time spend studying flash, actionscript, html and all these crazy interWebs strategies, trying to get the heads up on the next big thang, that amount of time has to be spent in my backyard, hands black with manure and garden soil.
My mint has gone feral, and I am no longer in control of its actions. Granted, I don’t mind that its growing up between my patio boards. An accidental step on a leaf sends a wave of mint scent hovering in the air.
Perennial from 2008
Garden 2009
Summer 2008
Summer 2007
I love you, dirt.
And that doesn’t make me a hippy, Goddamit.
Secret Tweet
I love being anonymous. Very cathartic and refreshing. Gives you an even quicker fix than on PostSecret.com.
Curse Bird
God bless the first amendment.
Tweet What You Eat
Who would want to? I mean, really?
Foamee
Okay. So I owe friends a few beers. Goddamit, I pay for my own coffee.
Moonrise
Inner Twitter
C’mon. Who is letting the hippies have twitter accounts? There should be a law.
Commuter Feed
Finally, a quick and easy way to see how many people are getting into car accidents all across America.
And, yes, the best twitter site of all:
Post Like A Pirate
I wish I could speak Pirate all day long. I know my friends wouldn’t allow it.
Curse all ‘o ye, ye land lovin’ hippies.
Oh my.
Three days left before Flash on Tap in Boston.
Three days can’t come soon enough.
Early morning studio call at Magick Lantern to vidi a dog for a client’s new online banner. I’m first at the studio so I get to calmly setup shop for myself and munch munchies they’ve crafted. The large rear set has half of a curved wall painted in green-screen green. Talent arrives — just the cutest beagle I’ve ever seen.
I brought my laptop equipped with CS4, quickly took a screen-capture of today’s Yahoo main page, put that on a big After Effects layout, and as the director filmed in HD Vidi, he’d pop lorez copies of those takes onto a flash drive. I keyed out the green and, voila, instant dog walking across a Yahoo page into the square banner advertising.
It was easily seen in a first test that we didn’t have enough of the dog walking across green screen. So the director got the wall painted more, and within a half hour, we were back trying again.
It was critical to have that real-time interaction between filming the scene and actually testing it right then for its worthiness.
Here’s my first test. I don’t even have the high-def footage back from the studio. This is using the lorez download from this morning. The ads aren’t real, either. And I don’t know where the burning film even applies ’cause this thing was shot all digi vidi. Huh.
My second adventure in Austin, TX for South by Southwest Interactive. The good folks at Ames Scullin O’Haire were kind enough to send me again. Ginger Donel accompanied me this year, and it really was an inspirational conference. I felt like last year’s theme, if a SXSW can be said to have an overall “theme,” was defining web 2.0 as the social revolution of the internet. This year, the overwhelming amount of discussion revolved around the increasing number of “feeds” in our lives — from tv and radio to email and twitter — and ways to aggregate just those “channels” we like together and filter out all the rest of the noise. There’s a great visual in there somewhere.
When we returned back home, I completely unplugged myself for two days. No emailing. No blogging. Absolutely no twittering.
On the third day, I rose again and plugged back in. Felt good. Ginger and I spent a little time gathering our photos, recorded a little script, and I edited our little movie throughout the weekend. Check it.
Ginger + Cary + SXSW09 from Cary Songy on Vimeo.
Welcome to the little voice in my head.
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